[Rcpp-devel] Rcpp syntactic sugar equivalent for R's optimize() function

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 28 February 2014 at 11:52, Gregor Kastner wrote:
| Hi Hideyoshi,
| 
| > Is there a way I can just call that function in Rcpp rather than having to
| > install new libraries or create my own? (I presume that there is probably a
| > “C_do_fmin.c” file somewhere that I can use?)
| 
| This questions has been discussed in this list about a month ago:
| 
| http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Linking-to-native-routines-in-other-packages-tt4683969.html#none

Not exactly. That question was about calling from another package for which
the calling-registered-functions approach was discussed; Hideyoshi wants to
call a function from an R base package.

That can be done, but can also be tricky because they don't exactly have the
same calling interface:

  /* fmin(f, xmin, xmax tol) */
  SEXP do_fmin(SEXP call, SEXP op, SEXP args, SEXP rho)

It is a good exercise to work through the call, op, args arguments once :)

In short, this is not trivial. Which is why I chose to quickly reimplement /
rewrite the Brent algorithm in another function for (internal, not
distributed) use as I alluded to in my earlier answer. 

Dirk

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